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Advance Party trilogy continues with McKinnon's Donkeys shoot
Sigma Films and Zentropa have begun principal photography on Rounding Up Donkeys.After Andrea Arnold's Red Road, this film is the second project in the Advance Party trilogy. Originally entitled Old Dogs, Rounding Up Donkeys marks the feature debut of television and short film director Morag McKinnon and is written by ...
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UK regional audiences name Bourne Ultimatum as top film
The Bourne Ultimatum has taken the public-voted Film of the Year at the Richard Attenborough Film Awards in the UK.The awards are for UK's regional film journalists and the audience winner was announced at trade event Cinema Days.Filmgoers across the country voted for the prize, which was coordinated through 25 ...
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Power takes TV, film rights to graphic novel Shooting War
UK-based production company Power has optioned the film and TV rights to Anthony Lappe's graphic novel Shooting War, which is illustrated by Dan Goldman.The book, published by Grand Central in the US and Wiedenfeld & Nicolson in the UK, is a near-future political thriller/dark satire about a blogger trying to ...
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UK's Peccadillo takes on 50+ films in Millivres catalogue
UK-based Peccadillo Pictures has acquired the feature film back catalogue of Millivres Multimedia.The deal includes more than 50 titles, such as Francois Ozon's Criminal Lovers, Gregg Araki's Totally F***ed Up, Anna Kokkinos' Head On, Angelina Maccarone's Hounded and a selection of Bruce LaBruce films.The Millivres Multimedia titles will gradually be ...
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UK mandatory training levy wins support despite concerns
Senior UK industry figures are strongly supporting a new mandatory training levy on producers proposed by Skillset and government, despite criticism from some producers.The Government is in the process of creating an industry training board (ITB), which will be able to impose a compulsory training levy on film-making.UK plans for ...
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Recep Ivedik leaps into top 10 with $5.1m take
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big-hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10. The top 40 films generated $166m from 48,087 screens from the period of February 22-24. For the full international ...
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Shooting begins on Salvage in Liverpool
Shooting begins today in Liverpool on British horror film Salvage, one of the three features commissioned under the Digital Departures scheme set up to celebrate Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. All three films will premiere in Liverpool later in the year.Salvage marks the feature directorial debut of Lawrence Gough. ...
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London Australian Film Festival announces full programme
The London Australian Film Festival returns to the Barbican March 6-16, opening with Unfinished Sky. Peter Duncan's film, about a reclusive farmer who takes in and gradually befriends a female Afghan refugee, saw its world premiere at Toronto last year.The festival will conclude with a gala screening of Richard Roxburgh's ...
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Rambo's UK box office down due to Odeon snub
Feathers were ruffled at the UK box office this past weekend, in the aftermath of Odeon's decision to drop Rambo which significantly dented the film's takings. Sony's latest instalment of the gory Sylvester Stallone film generated just $2.5m (£1.2m) from 300 sites for a $8,166 (£4,157) site average, well below ...
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Northern Ireland Screen announces $1.4m in funding for local films
Northern Ireland Screen has announced almost $1.4m in funding for indigenous film production from home-grown talent through the Northern Ireland Screen Fund, supported by Invest NI. 'Last year the big Hollywood film [Walden Media's children's adventure City Of Ember] afforded a great deal of experience for many local cast and ...
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Jumper remains internationalnumber one with $21.9m tally
The sci-fi adventure Jumper maintained its number one status overseas thanks to a $21.9m estimated gross through Fox International from 4,040 screens in 40 markets that raised the tally to $61.2m.The film opened top in France on an excellent $5.1m from 586, second in Thailand on $1.3m from 170 and ...
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UK government unveils 'action plan' for creative industries
The UK government today unveiled an 'action plan' for the creative industries with the launch of a report entitled 'New Talents for the New Economy'.The headline measure features a plan to develop 5,000 apprenticeships across the creative industries sector by 2013, which has already attracted commitments from employers such as ...
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Medb Films acquires rights to Tremain's Sacred Country
Kent-based independent film company Medb Films has acquired the film rights to Rose Tremain's best selling-novel Sacred Country. The option has been funded with development funding from regional film agency Screen South. The film is set in the English countryside, London and Nashville, Tennessee. It tells the story of an ...
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Christopher Hampton to speak at International Screenwriters' Festival
Christopher Hampton, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Atonement, has been added to the high-profile line-up of speakers at this year's International Screenwriters' Festival, to be held July 1-3 in Cheltenham. Previously announced speakers include BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter, Oscar winners Julian Fellowes, Guillermo Del Toro, Lucy Prebble, Deborah Moggach, Peter ...
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Screen Opinion: The Red-Stained Carpet
No matter which film walks home from Sunday's Oscar ceremony with the big prize, it will mark another victory for the US-centric studio apparatus otherwise known as Hollywood. Even at the more artistic fringes of the film-making spectrum, the big-six movie conglomerates still exert a gravitational pull on the marketplace ...
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After Bruges'Profile of Martin McDonagh
In Bruges, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last month and opened in the US earlier this month, marks a longed-for arrival in the world of feature-length cinema for the celebrated London-based Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.'I loved movies from a very early age, about 13 or 14 onwards, so in ...
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London International Documentary Festival returns for second run
A greatly expanded London International Documentary Festival is to return on Mar 29, after the success of its inaugural outing in 2007. Presenting over 50 films across the eight days of the festival programme, the LIDF will hold events and screenings at eight London venues, including the Barbican, the Curzon ...
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UK industry leaders issue call for bold thinking
The UK needs to be braver and more imaginative in its approach to fostering creative industries across the spectrum, including film, television and video games.That was the key message from industry leaders attending 'The UK's Creative Economy - Options for Strategy' seminar held at the Royal United Services Institute in ...
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UK Film Council's P&A Fund announces $1m in awards
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund is backing U2 3D, the first-ever feature length live action film shot and exhibited in breakthrough digital 3D. Released on Feb 22 by Revolver Entertainment, the film documents the band U2's 2006 Buenos Aires concert in the Vertigo tour. The film is ...
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Worldwide Bonus signs UK distribution agreement with Rovinge
Worldwide Bonus Entertainment has announced a five-film distribution deal for all UK rights with production company Rovinge Motion Picture Company. The agreement will commence with the distribution of new British comedy Three And Out, starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton.Directed by Jonathan Gershfield, Three And Out ...